The Fuzzy Futures of Neo-Carbon Work : Neo-Carbon Futures Clinique II

Abstract

This report documents and analyses the results of a Neo-Carbon Futures Clinique held at Hotel President in Helsinki 13 April 2016. At the Futures Clinique workshop groups anticipated possible futures of peer-to-peer work that is self-organised by the workers. The Futures Clinique is part of the Neo-Carbon Energy research project. The foresight part of the project is concerned with studying the futures of peer-to-peer societies enabled by the proposed Neo-Carbon energy system. Such a system would be a distributed, renewable energy system that empowers citizens by providing them with cheap, clean and abundant energy and materials. In this project, possible futures of a peer-to-peer society are studied through four scenarios (Heinonen et al. 2016), which provided the framework also for this Futures Clinique. The results of the Futures Clinique were summarised and refined into seven categories, each illuminating different aspects of the possible futures of peer-to-peer work. Common to the categories is the strengthening of values other than economic as the main drivers in economy and society.